David L. Hayes

Overview

David Hayes concentrates his practice on intellectual property counseling, litigation and audits, and technology licensing, distribution and transfer. He is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

David counsels a wide range of high technology companies on establishing and maintaining procedures to protect the company's intellectual property through copyrights, patents, trade secrets, mask works and trademarks, and on avoiding infringing the rights of others. He represents numerous clients on high profile, complex technology transactions, including patent license transactions and acquisition strategies for both component technologies and turnkey systems. He counsels numerous clients on complex open source issues. He is a nationally recognized expert on copyright issues related to the Internet and digital media. He has served as counsel in a number of precedent setting software copyright infringement cases, including Apple v. Microsoft, Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, and A & M Records v. Napster, Inc. He has also worked on several patent infringement cases.

David has published dozens of articles and given many speeches throughout the United States and in Japan on various intellectual property topics. He has testified before Congress and federal agencies concerning intellectual property issues. David serves on the advisory board of The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the program committee for the USC Intellectual Property Law Institute, as well as the editorial boards of The Computer and Internet Lawyer, Cyberspace Lawyer, The Intellectual Property Strategist, The Journal of Internet Law and Intellectual Property Counselor.

Over the past decade, David has been recognized more than 140 times as one of the top practitioners in various fields of intellectual property law and strategy by leading publications and ranking organizations. Among those, he has been included in Chambers USA every year since 2002, in Chambers Global since 2008, in Northern California Super Lawyerssince 2004, and has been ranked byIntellectual Asset Managementfor each of the last three years as one of the world’s leading patent and IP strategy attorneys. Best Lawyers named him the 2017 Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law in San Francisco, and in 2014, he was named among the top 50 IP lawyers nationally in The National Law Journal’s inaugural issue of ‘Intellectual Property Trailblazers & Pioneers. David has been included in Managing Intellectual Property's list of IP Stars for the past three years.

After law school, he served as a law clerk to Hon. John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before law school, David worked as an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley.

Publications

D. Hayes, Advanced Copyright Issues on the Internet, September 2016 (previous versions published in The Computer Law & Security Report, Part 1, November/December 2000, at 363, Part 2, January/February 2001, at 3, Part 3, March/April 2001, at 75, Part 4, May/June 2001, at 147, Part 5, July/August 2001 at 219, Part 6, September/October 2001 at 291, Part 7, November/December 2001 at 363, Part 8, January/February 2002 at 3; and 7 Tex. Intell. Prop. L. J. 1 (Fall 1998)

D. Hayes, A Comprehensive Current Analysis of Software 'Look and Feel' Protection, The Computer Law and Security Report; Part I, (December, 1995) at 304; Part II, (February, 1996) at 14; Part III, (April, 1996), at 66; Part IV, (June, 1996), at 134; Part V, (July, 1996), at 21; and Part VI, (October 1996), at 270

D. Hayes, The Legality of Disassembly of Computer Programs, Computer/Law Journal, Volume XII, October 1993, Number 1, at 1

D. Hayes, What's Left of 'Look and Feel' Protections for Software? , The San Francisco Daily Journal, The Practitioner column, July 28, 1993

D. Hayes, What's Left of 'Look and Feel': A Current Analysis, The Computer Lawyer, Parts I, II, III, May, June, July 1993

D. Hayes, Shrinkwrap License Agreements: New Light On A Vexing Problem, University of California Hastings College of Law Communications and Entertainment Law Journal, Volume 15, Number 3, Spring 1993, at 653

S. Meyer & D. Hayes, Harbingers of Change in United States Computer Software Copyright Protection, Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwalte, March 1993, at 81. (published in German and English)